[Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone

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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker

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[Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone

Date:

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:06:33 +0100 (CET)

Hi,
having worked with Stéphane to bring the French translation up to date
has brought a few realisations, both her's and mine:
- It's really hellish to try to format messages with explicit \n in
them, especially if the contain argument directives so you're
without formatting control anyway. It would probably look nicer if
the code that displays messages broke it up in somewhat good looking
lines.
[Stéphane]
- If we're going to break messages into lines in the code, we need to
figure out how to code unbreakable spaces. An idea is to borrow ~
from TeX as the unbrakable space.
[Richard]
- File and directory names are sometimes quoted, sometimes not. Same
goes for other strings as well. I recall that there's been talk of
cleaning up before, maybe we need to do so again, if it was ever
done to begin with?
Maybe we need to agree on quoting or not to begin with? My vote
goes to quoting file and directory names, since they can have spaces
in them.
[Richard]
Cheers,
Richard
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